Notanant features

Notanant is based on the idea of collating, organising and sharing information between people. By starting with this people-focus, Notanant websites are easy to create, use and manage and have a wide set of functionality to make it easy to connect people and information.

Editing

• Where-you-are-is-what-you-edit principle. Go to the page, edit it. No complex back-end or administration side
• Full rich-text web-based editing for pages
• A dynamic and natural structure that makes it easy to grow and add content
• Role-based permissions and access to manage public and private areas
• Sites and Subsites design for depths
• No-code design - everything can be driven through a browser
• No technical knowledge needed

Content features

• Specialised content areas for articles/pages, news, galleries, forums, blogs etc
• %%components to allow a wide variety of content and links to be brought through automatically to any page or the site layout
• Site calendar with site events and possibility of member sign-up to events
• User controlled alerts system for content areas
• Site contact page and active address details (search by location)
• Built in search facilities
• Facilities for comments, bookmarking and reviews and sharing these with others

Design

• Dynamic site layout management - all sites page layout can be configured straight from a web-browser
• Full content-independent CSS based templating system that is instantly switchable
• Choice of templates and banner images
• Custom templates easily added to order

Audio / Video

• Ability to include images, audio and video
• Specialised photo galleries with automatically generated thumbnails
• Ability to embed video from sites like YouTube and Picasa
• Online resizing of images
• Automatic optimisation of images for fast loading pages
• Ability to add and re-edit alt and title tags

Membership and community tools

• Sites are built to have members (may just be the administrator)
• Friends network and social networking as standard
• Permission-based access to all pages and content areas based on membership
• Site linking and ability to build cross-site networks and communities
• Member management with options to create officers, set and enforce subscriptions
• Member's control their privacy and have their own page for their profile, password etc
• Member-to-member communications via email and via Notanant internal web-mail
• Bulk-member communication and ad hoc member groups can be set up
• Self-registration and subscription available depending only on permission settings
• Approval system for content, membership and member management

Administration

• Content management with page history
• Automatic administrator's site map and site statistics
• Simple permission-based switches to turn features of the site on or off
• Permission-based menus for administrator and users (don't see options that are unavailable)

Extras

• Extendible page-by-page internationalisation and multi-language capabilities
• Shop and product management:
  • Catalogue, order only, download with payment and full payment based shops
  • Product control with options and full product configurator possible
  • Download and music products handled automatically through the system
  • Music products, lo-fi demo versions created automatically
• Ability to build ad hoc scripts and classifications on data - for instance for contact forms, or for articles sharing common data fields (semi-structured data management).

Example uses

• Website and content management
• Social networking applications
• Membership management and publishing
• Directory and matching services
• E-commerce systems
• Knowledge management
• Intranets and internal permission controlled websites